Restaurant manager, Kirsty Sims said: “I am incredibly excited to be bringing the nation’s best-loved pizza to Weston-super-Mare and to be at the helm of such a great team.”

The restaurant also features artwork portraying vintage seaside posters, postcards and photos, and there is an intriguing high-level rope feature that zig zags across the ceiling.

Birch ply and grey stained timber have been used in the panelling and flooring.

There is also external seating in the mall at the front of the restaurant.

You can buy a roast dinner pizza

The opening is just in time for the PizzaExpress Christmas menu which includes a roast dinner pizza, complete with beef and roast potatoes; a maple-glazed gammon Romana; and a cheese and potato pizza for vegetarians, complete with white sauce, red onion, capers and rosemary.

Desserts include the return of the popular snowball dough balls as well as a caramel and pear gelato.

A Christmas Specials set menu of three courses and a glass of fizz is available at £19.95 over the festive period; and for parties of five adults or more, the booker goes free.

For younger pizza-lovers, the Piccolo menu is full of tasty choices, you can enjoy three courses for only £6.95: Baked Dough Balls and side salad, then either pizza, pasta or salad, finishing with a dessert and Bambinoccino.

You can book a pizza making party

For budding chefs looking to celebrate a birthday, a pizza making party will see them transformed into pizzaiolos so they can stretch, toss and top their own pizza and play party games before sitting down to enjoy their culinary creations.